Labs on a Chip: Meet the Stripped Down Rat

by Roxanne Khamsi Nature, 5 May 2005 For Michael Shuler, downsizing is not a dirty word. In the mid-1990s, his lab bench was cluttered with flasks connected by surgical tubing. Each flask contained cells from a different organ, suspended in nourishing fluids. Shuler's goal was to model how chemicals entering the body can be metabolized into more toxic forms. Today, the apparatus has been shrunk to a tiny device that looks like something from the insides of your mobile phone. Read the article